seesul
Senior Master Sergeant
Yep, I have also expected detailed answers as I always got them in the letters W.R. sent me but I´ve been in touch with him for more than 2 years and can tell you this is not an arogance. We drunk out few beers at the one table and spent few beautiful moments both in Germany and in our country and from my point of view and what I feel is that he knows what the WAR is and says we can be happy and thank to God that there´s no war today (at least here in Europe).
In Sept 2006, one day after we have visited his crash landing spot from Aug 29,1944, there was a free discussion with him in our museum in Slavicin. A lot of people came there, even more than when our American friends (2nd BG vets) visited us, as it was for a first time when a former enemy fighter from the battle over White Carpathian visited us.
And Willi began this discussion as follows:
''If I can, I´d like to apologize for everything, what the German nation did to your nation. I was the fighter and my job was to defence my own country. So when I was hanging behind the tail of enemy bomber, I had 2 choices- either to kill or to be killed''.
And after this discussion he told me that he would never belive that he will be so heartly welcomed in our country as a former enemy and that he will never forget these moments.
I got some pics taken during this discussion so I can post them if someone is interested.
Last year I also posted pics from his meeting with that guy in my siggy. This meeting was my dream that came true...
Chris, you don´t need to thank. It was your idea to ask W.R. and you spent some hours on this thread...